Blogger Tips And Tricks 2012

Some Friend Connect Gadgets that you might not know

Most of you might be aware of the Google Followers gadget.Its just one of the different friend connect gadgets. Where Can i get a Friend Connect Gadget? 1. Go to Google Friend Connect and on the left pane you will see a list of your blogs.If you don’t find it, then add your site there. 2.Click on your Blog Name from the Left Pane and Click on the button which says “Browse the gadgets gallery” . 3.Now you can see a list of gadgets.You can customize the colours and the Generate the Code. 4.Copy this Code . Now in your blogger layout page(of the same blog), add a new HTML/JavaScript Gadget and paste this code there and save. 5.Now you should have that gadget running on your blog. Here is a list of some of the Popular Gadgets[Some of them which can be demoed here :)] 1.Members...

Google Ajax Search With Your Adsense Ads

All of you might have seen the New Ajax Search Gadget on your Layout > Add Gadget Page. This Ajax search gadget doesn't support adsense ads.But you can now have a Google ad supported Google Ajax search widget on your blog.The speciality of the Ajax Search is that it can search your blog, without actually leaving your blog.(no need to go to a new page.. it acts like an inline search) The Ad supported Ajax search Code is available at Google Web Elements .You can see 3 options there. Automatically Search My Site Search my Site and use Adsense for Search Use an existing Custom Search Engine For showing adsense ads you...

If you want to change the colours and styling of the search results, you will have to add additional CSS Classes.

Update: – Now Google CSE has added all these things. and much more(themes and other customization stuff) So it would be easier for you guys.. :)

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Source: http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2009/10/google-ajax-search-with-your-adsense.html

Setting up Blogger Custom Domain on Name.Com

If you are not sure what a custom domain is, then first read this article about Blogger Custom Domains and come back . How to buy the Domain Name?Name.Com will allow you to buy domains with different extensions like .COM, .NET, .ORG etc . 1. First of all Goto Name.Com and you will find a Search Box there. This search box can be used to check if the domain name is available or not. For example if i need the domain mynewcustomdomain.com , then i will search for mynewcustomdomain 2.Name will show the available domain name extensions.Select the one you want. 3.Click the Checkout Button and on the next screen opt to create an account(if you don’t...

Create a Facebook Fan Page for your Blog

Facebook is a great Social Networking Site to promote your blog or brand. Most of the major brands do have a Facebook Fan Page. Here are some examples of Facebook Fan pages – Coca Cola FB Fan Page , Mashable FB Fan Page. Are you impressed and want to create one for your blog? I too wanted to create one and i finally made it. Here is the link of my Facebook Fan Page . So lets start making our own Facebook Fan Page for our blog. 1.Go to the Create Fan Page Link on Facebook and select Brand or Product Choose Website from the drop down list and provide the Page name in the next box. Read and agree to the terms and click the...

Facebook Share Count Buttons For Blogger

Facebook has now officially introduced the Retweet like Facebook buttons for your blogs or sites. These Facebook buttons look much similar to the Retweet buttons by Tweetmeme. Facebook has 5 styles of Sharing buttons. Here we will see two of them. Adding a Facebook share count button will show a neat count of how many times your blog post has been shared on Facebook. Note: The Facebook share buttons are deprecated and FB no longer supports it(It still works though). You can still add it if you want. You can also opt to add the new Facebook Like Buttons with Like Count. Facebook Share Button Style 1 Code for Facebook Share Button Style 1...

Selective Display of Blogger Widgets on homepage, archive,post page, or particular pages

Before getting into the details of selective display,let us discuss about the different types of pages on blogger. 1) home page- yea its your blogs home page as the name suggests(actually this is not a type. but i will still include it here..) 2) Archive Page- Refers to archive pages.. 3) Item Page - Refers to Post Pages 4) Index Page - Includes home page + label page + search results page 5) Static Page – The newly introduced Blogger Pages Selective Display.. There are different conditions to check the page type. You can use these conditions for the selective display. You might like to display a welcome...

Blog Statistics Widget for Blogger / Blogspot

By blog statistics, i meant the number of blog posts and number of reader comments on your blog.The blog statistics widget displays the total number of posts and the total number of comments made on your blog as a beautiful sidebar widget.This widget works using javascript ( the json feeds) which finds the number of comments and posts from your blogs feed..To get a blog statistics widget you can use this widget installer.When you use the widget installer make sure that you dont add the http:// part to the url because it is automatically added by the widget installer..Also don't add a slash at the end of the urlPermalink: Blog Statistics Widget...

Keep an eye on your blogs Adsense Income

How many of you use the adsense widgets from blogger?? Most of the bloggers create therir own custom ad units and paste the html code in the blogger template or add it as an HTML template.All of you guys know that you can also add adsense from blogger.Now here is the important part..When you create custom adsense units at Adsense you tend to create channels and you make make so many channels and finally get confused with them..Consider that there are different chanelled adsense ads on your blog. You can still know the total income that your blog generated(Sum of al the ad units on your blog).This is how we do it..Goto your Blogs DashBoard and...

Source: http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2009/06/keep-eye-on-your-blogs-adsense-income.html

New Exclusive Directory for Blogger Powered Blogs

I have made a exclusive directory for blogger powered blogs.There are millions of blogger powered blogs on the internet.Some of them are very interesting.You might have seen some interesting blogs in bloggers "Blogs of Note"Who can add their link to the directory?Anyone who has a blogger powered blog can submit their site to this directory.The blog can either be a blogspot domain or an FTP or Custom domain blogIs there any conditions which i should follow?I don't impose any constraints on you.the only condition is that the blog should be powered by blogger..No reciprocal links neededBut i wont approve Adult content and spammy copy paste MFA blogs..What is the use of submitting to this directory?By submitting to our exclusive blogger directory,you will get a free back link to your siteThis...

Light World Blogger Template

Light world is a Widgetified Adsense Ready Blogger Template..This theme was actually made for Wordpress and was converted to BloggerCreditsDesigner :Andrei LucaConverter :Deluxe TemplatesWidgetification and tweaking:Blogger TemplatesIntegrated Features1. Integrated Adsense.You just have to fill in the template generator with your adsense pub id(Something like pub-1234567892.Integrated Google Analytics.You will have to enter your analytics tracking id in the widget generator3.Feedburner RSS Subscription : You have to enter the feedburner Feed Url in the template generator for this to work.4.An About Page - If you already have an about page, then...

Blogger Templates Dilectio

Dilectio is one of the free blogger templates designed by Design Disease(for wordpress) and ported to Blogger templates by BlogandWeb(Blogger template converter). This theme has got a very colorful interface and nice colors..Features modded into this blogger template1. Integrated blended Adsense2. Integrated Tabbed Recent Posts and Recent Comments3. Integrated Feedburner RSS buttons4. Optimized For Search Engines5. Integrated Google Analytics6. Integrated Label Cloud7. Integrated social Bookmarking icons like that of stumble digg etc.. 8. Integrated Breadcrumbs matching your Blogger Template9. An integrated Colorful About me Section How...

Add to Twitter Button For Blogger

Many of you might have used my social bookmarking icons.I already had made a post about social bookmarking icons including digg,stumble and others.Twitter is now growing very rapidly and many of the bloggers are widely using it to keep their readers updated about new posts.I had got many requests to include a twitter icon in the social bookmarking icon set.So i have finally added a new post to twitter button to the Social Bookmarking Icons..I also have updated my old post to include the new twitter icon.But you can follow the instructions here in this post. How is this service different? - Most of the Add to Twitter services asks the user...

Denim Blogger Template with Multiple Styles (Switcher Included)

The Denim template is a widely popular template which one of the default blogger templates. The main speciality of this template is that it doesn't have any images but still it looks sleek and professional.. No images means that your site will load much faster. Here i am presenting to you an advanced version of the denim template.This Template has multiple styles(It is more like multiple templates within the same template). Your blog readers can change the blog template from a drop down menu..This Template is widgetified and comes with the following integrated features.1.It has a built in label cloud which matches the switch styles..2.It has...

New Blogger Help Center

Blogger Forums Released...Hello i have been working on a forum for sometime..It is powered by BBPress.. From now on if you can use the forum to share any doubts questions or anything else.. It also has some offtopic sections.. just to do blah blah blah.Maybe you could share your blogging experience with other bloggers.. Many of our readers are efficient bloggers.. I invite you all to share your knowledge and help other fellow bloggers.. If you are not an expert,still there is room for you at the forum.. There are general discussion sections in the forum..As always i would love to get your suggestions,feedbacks,bugreports etc.. There are topics for these too at the forums.. ;) Did you guys like the template of Blogger Forums? I am planning to change the directory and the main blog to this...

Table Of Contents Widget For Blogger

This Widget will act as a "Table of Contents". It will list out each of your blog posts in a styled table. When you hover over the post title, you will see a summary of the post. The Widget also displays the Post dates and labels. It will allow you to sort the posts by title or by post date. I employs a bubble sort algorithm to sort the posts accordingly. Credits : This Widget was created by Hans of Beautiful Beta . I have tweaked it to fix the 500 post limitHow to Add Table Of Contents to BloggerStep 1 - Make a new Page in Blogger with a suitable title In the page editor, switch to HTML mode, and paste the following code into the Post...